In January, when starfucker-in-chief Donald Trump was looking for some music acts more famous than 3 Doors Down to play his inauguration concert, a vicious rumor was going around that local boy made good Flo Rida had agreed to perform for $1 million. The story circulated so widely that it…
Some women make it look easy. Businesswomen, artists, mothers, partners, friends. Sometimes all at once. A woman can inhabit many lives in just one day while traversing a minefield of societal expectations: Be soft but not weak. Strong but not emasculative. Sexy but chaste. Honest but not biting. Throughout her…
Revolution Live should not exist. Both man-made and natural disasters have pummeled the building for more than two decades. Cops, drugs, and shitty ownership have all tried to take it down in its previous incarnations as the Edge and the Chili Pepper. But there it still stands on SW Third Avenue…
A Fly Guy leads the way as he sends the party back to the ’90s every Tuesday at Rec Room nightclub.
All that anyone could talk after Sunday night’s Grammys was James Hetfield’s microphone issues or Laverne Cox forgetting to namedrop the band in the introduction. But in metal circles, the real controversy was Metallica sharing the stage with Lady Gaga for a performance of “Moth Into Flame.” Setting aside that cries of…
Midway through Nu Deco Ensemble’s second season, cofounder Jacomo Bairos couldn’t be more pleased with the 21st-century chamber orchestra’s success. “It has exceeded all our expectations.” he tells New Times. “We never expected such loyal audiences. We’ve been selling out our concerts, so people who love us now know they…
The holiday dedicated to a fat baby with wings and a saint who was martyred for marrying couples illegally is a moneymaking machine. Cards, chocolates, and sex toys will fly off the shelves in the next 24 hours. There are also the inevitable last-minute plans to be made. For procrastinating Romeos and Juliets, here’s a guide to some of the best events and parties for both the loved and the lonely.
For Locos Por Juana’s lead singer Itawe Correa, collaboration with legendary rapper Talib Kweli on the song “For the Ladies” was a blast from the past. “I grew up listening to him in the hip-hop era.” Correa told the New Times. “Talib’s work with Mos Def in Blackstar changed my…
A trio of concerts taking place in Broward stands out, each offering something different. The marquee event finds a South Florida native returning home for the third year in a row. Chris Carrabba and Dashboard Confessional will be at Revolution Live this Wednesday. The lovelorn group best known for songs such as “Hands Down” and “Stolen” is headed back to its roots at a spot that, according to Carrabba in a recent interview with New Times, is an old haunt.
Just days after dropping his goals for “Summer 17,” Rick Ross has been added to the lineup of the 24th-annual 9 Mile Music Festival, the reggae-based fest hitting Miami in March. The MMG boss plans to infiltrate the stage along with headliners DMX, Julian Marley, Capleton, and others.
It might have been short-lived, but the downtown Miami bar Libertine was an interesting experiment. In 2015, a first-floor room of the megaclub Space was walled off. Owners created a separate entrance and delivered something different.
Love is seriously in the air — like Zika or some other disease — and some South Florida artists have contracted the bug just in time for the weekend before Valentine’s Day.
This is is the third year of the Apostrophe’s stage during INC. It will feature ten musicians, performers, and DJs on the iconic back patio of Churchill’s. This place has witnessed the birth of more than 1,000 artists during open-mike nights on Mondays. The lineup on Apostrophe’s III is a mix of what can be called the essence of the conference…
“That address is a landmark for me,” Chris Carrabba, the lead singer of emo superband Dashboard Confessional, says of Revolution Live, the location of the group’s February 15 show. “Years before it was Revolution, when it used to be the Edge, I saw Fugazi there. We were in line to see Nirvana but had to leave before we could get in for band rehearsal. I saw Jawbreaker there, and I remember thinking, If I work as hard as they do, I could make it.”
Now that general-admission tickets are sold out and all you can get are the more expensive VIP passes, Ultra Music Festival has revealed its Phase 2 lineup.
It’s rare to move from dancer to DJ. But Nastia, a Ukrainian native who spins at Club Space Saturday, feels it is an easy transition. “When you dance for years and then become a go-go dancer in the club, you feel like a fish in water,” she tells New Times…
Jared McFarlin, AKA Party Thieves, was a 9-percenter. He earned a scholarship to attend West Point and play football for the Army Black Knights. He was high-school standout in football and basketball and was a member of the National Honor Society. As a college freshman, the 6-foot-5 wide receiver from Monroe, New York, caught seven passes for 74 yards and a touchdown. His sophomore campaign didn’t happen thanks to knee injuries that ended his football career. His Army career was also over: Those same knee injuries prevented him from serving.
Last month, when everyone on Facebook was making lists of the top ten albums they liked as a teenager, a lot of people who came of age in the ’90s seemed to have amnesia. The Pixies? Wu-Tang Clan? That’s your selective memory (or hipster ego) talking. Meanwhile, a lot of…
If you’re one of those people who complain about the dead Miami music scene, you probably don’t go out to support local bands. Indie bands and artists have always supported one another, and Snowmoon — the female-fronted local rock band by Jessie Allen, Andy Rodriguez, and Noel Hernandez attests — to this truth.
Did David Crosby, who will play the North Beach Bandshell this Sunday, always want to be a musician? “I wanted to be an actor once, but, yeah, I wanted to make music.” Is it true Dennis Hopper based his character in Easy Rider on Crosby? “Yeah.” Was he offended by…
You might expect Jermaine Dupri to be a little off his game when he performs at LIV this Friday. The legendary music producer and rapper is an Atlanta native and a longtime Falcons fan. He was even onstage for a halftime performance with Ludacris and Jeezy during the NFC Championship…
Instrumental fusion quartet Electric Kif is like Miami’s musical version of the United Nations. The band, which will play the Coconut Grove Arts Festival February 20, transforms four cultures into one sonic experience. “I’m from Mexico City,” bassist Rodrigo Zambrano tells New Times. “Our guitarist is from France, with all its gypsy culture; Jason [Matthews, the keyboardist] is from Philadelphia, which has its own thing with soul and R&B; and Armando [Lopez, the drummer] is from here, the Magic City.”
